The Study Of The Preface

Preface is a kind of genres that attached to the book, works and chart for directing and introducing anything about the text, especially the intention of the author. The article will take the prefaces from the pre-Qin days to Tang dynasty as the object of study, outline the logical way of the development, reveal the characteristic and significance, and so as to study the related genres, look the vicissitudes of times and author's intention carefully.The introduction will summarize the predecessors'achievements by times and specific questions. The paper will discuss the genres thought of ,, one by one.The first chapter is the tracing back."Xu"is a borrowing, and the meaning of the preface lies on the"order"and the"main threads". The article think that is the undeveloped form of preface, and the initial form is expounding classics. preface and preface carry forward it.By virtue of comparing other expounding classics items, we could definite the preface's special character.The second chapter will study the preface of book during the Qin and Han days. As an important type, the prefaces of book strengthen the position of preface in the realm of learning and culture. The article will analyze , and .The third chapter will discuss the issue of preface which wrote under somebody else's name. The article argues that it's a unique phenomenon, reflecting the course of the preface being recognized and accepted gradually.The article has thought deeply about several problems with different natures and gradation.The fourth chapter will take the preface of every genres article and belles-letters as the object. The paper will summarize the basic function firstly, but will pay more attention to stress the personality from the microcosmic and specific angle.The fifth chapter will analyze You Yan and Zeng preface countering the fact. You Yan and Zeng preface are extended from traditional preface, showing the course of writing from by text to by activity, and presenting the independence literature price. The paper will take the independence of Zeng preface as the key item.The sixth chapter will introduce the alternative name"Yin"and"latter preface"; compare the similar genres in the same class.The concluding remarks will sketch the paper, state the literature and independence again, and discuss the problem of the relationship between preface and the writing idea.